Cybercrime, Purple Fox is now spread as a worm
Guardicore cybersecurity experts: The malware uses indiscriminate port scanning and exploitation of exposed SMB services with weak passwords and hashes.
Cybercrime: here it comes Conti, ransomware with unique peculiarities
Carbon Black cyber security experts: The malware exploits WRM and many independent threads for encryption. In addition, it can control how to scan data and target only SMBs.
Cyber Security, Microsoft fixes 129 product vulnerabilities at once
Eleven were critical, but none of them has been exploited by cybercrime. SecurityAffairs: One was located in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, and dubbed SMBleed.
Cyber Security, Microsoft patches the Windows 10 “SMBGhost”
The CVE-2020-0796 affected the Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3). It could enable remote and arbitrary code execution, potentially taking control of the system. Moreover, it was wormable.
Cyber Security: Windows 10 has a critical vulnerability, not yet patched
Microsoft confirmed. It has been dubbed “SMBGhost” and affects the Server Message Block (SMB) network communications protocol. It’s wormable and there are no mitigating factors.